Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TEAM: Pittsburgh (by 1½ games...
...chain. In 1956, they sold the Chicago American. Three years later, they merged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with Scripps-Howard's News, characteristically retaining control only of the account books. And last week, for a reported $5,000,000 cash, the Hearst heirs sold the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (circ. 174,343), which has been losing money at an appalling $3,000,000 annual clip, to the independent Post-Gazette (circ. 272,797). A six-day morning paper, the Post-Gazette will publish mornings, evenings and Sundays as the Post-Gazette & Sun-Telegraph...
...declared unequivocally, is only 50% effective (on the average) after a single shot. By simple arithmetic, he argued that two shots would be 75% effective, and three shots, 87.5%. Dr. Salk contrasted this with the efficacy of the hand-tooled vaccine made with craftsman care in his University of Pittsburgh laboratories: 90% effective after one shot, 99% after two, and 99.9% after three. Commercial vaccine, he said, can be brought up to this high standard...
...debt too high, expanding without careful study, Capital has been in competitive trouble for years and usually looked to CAB for help. The last time was in 1958, when CAB bailed out Capital by giving the line access to the lucrative Florida market, with a run from Buffalo. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, to Jacksonville and beyond. Object of the move: to keep Capital off subsidy for all time. Yet the line could not make the long-haul run pay off. Its year-round traffic estimates were too optimistic: its stations in four Florida cities cost more than they were worth...
...Penn Center in downtown Philadelphia, it called on Dowling for the planning. He urged the road to sacrifice some office rental space in favor of setback buildings with fountains, air and light, convinced Pennsy brass that what was lost in footage would be made up in higher rent. When Pittsburgh was having trouble deciding how to go about redeveloping its gritty downtown area. Dowling, then adviser to Equitable Life Assurance, came to the rescue. At a meeting in his office, he advised Pittsburgh planners to stop thinking small about a mere four-block housing project. On his desktop, he sketched...